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A fellow from East Texas didn't take kindly to an armadillo that entered his backyard at 3am on Thursday morning. He opened fire on the animal, but one bullet bounced of the critter's tough hide and hit the man in his face.

Brian Sacks: "Tell your child that before he/she was born you too had a groundbreaking idea for a rainbow-powered washing machine. Let them know you were on the verge of getting a patent and becoming fabulously wealthy but then they happened." Read the rest

The classic Vacation movie series began as a 1979 short story about the Griswold family's disastrous trip to Disneyland that John Hughes published in National Lampoon magazine. At the time, Hughes was a copywriter at ad agency Leo Burnett Worldwide in Chicago. Read the rest

@jlw’s daughter Hannah, 8, made this beautiful drawing for me and based the typographic treatment of my name in the chunky serif font that’s on my business card. She has an amazing eye, hand, and mind for design.

@jlw’s daughter Hannah, 8, made this beautiful drawing for me and based the typographic treatment of my name in the chunky serif font that’s on my business card. She has an amazing eye, hand, and mind for design.

Tahitian Maohi people who knew Captain Wallis was a total dick who was going to claim their ancestral homeland as his own, and claim them as conquered subhumans. Recording readings of rare books on exploration of the South Pacific, and the indigenous flowers, trees, and foods of the islands and their used by first Hawaiians. National Tropical Botanical Gardens, Kauai, Hawaii. Audio coming soon on @boingboing.

Recording readings of rare books on exploration of the South Pacific, and the indigenous flowers, trees, and foods of the islands and their used by first Hawaiians. National Tropical Botanical Gardens, Kauai, Hawaii. Audio coming soon on @boingboing.

The real deal. Original printing. Recording readings of rare books on exploration of the South Pacific, and the indigenous flowers, trees, and foods of the islands and their used by first Hawaiians. National Tropical Botanical Gardens, Kauai, Hawaii. Audio coming soon on @boingboing.

Recording readings of rare books on exploration of the South Pacific, and the indigenous flowers, trees, and foods of the islands and their used by first Hawaiians. National Tropical Botanical Gardens, Kauai, Hawaii. Photo by NTBG’s Jon Letman. Audio coming soon on @boingboing.

Recording readings of rare books on exploration of the South Pacific, and the indigenous flowers, trees, and foods of the islands and their used by first Hawaiians. National Tropical Botanical Gardens, Kauai, Hawaii. Photo by NTBG’s Jon Letman. Audio coming soon on @boingboing.

Recording readings of rare books on exploration of the South Pacific, and the indigenous flowers, trees, and foods of the islands and their used by first Hawaiians. National Tropical Botanical Gardens, Kauai, Hawaii. Photo by NTBG’s Jon Letman. Audio coming soon on @boingboing.

Recording readings of rare books on exploration of the South Pacific, and the indigenous flowers, trees, and foods of the islands and their used by first Hawaiians. National Tropical Botanical Gardens, Kauai, Hawaii. Photo by NTBG’s Jon Letman. Audio coming soon on Boing Boing.